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Is there a government on earth that rests upon a more false, absurd, or tyrannical basis than that?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Is there a government on earth that rests upon a more false, absurd, or tyrannical basis than that?”
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He questions the legitimacy of a government based on such flawed principles.
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On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.